diff --git a/packages/node/src/transports/http.ts b/packages/node/src/transports/http.ts
index 52df8244461e..687325b776f4 100644
--- a/packages/node/src/transports/http.ts
+++ b/packages/node/src/transports/http.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ export interface NodeTransportOptions extends BaseTransportOptions {
   caCerts?: string | Buffer | Array<string | Buffer>;
   /** Custom HTTP module. Defaults to the native 'http' and 'https' modules. */
   httpModule?: HTTPModule;
+  /** Allow overriding connection keepAlive, defaults to false */
+  keepAlive?: boolean;
 }
 
 // Estimated maximum size for reasonable standalone event
@@ -56,12 +58,13 @@ export function makeNodeTransport(options: NodeTransportOptions): Transport {
   );
 
   const nativeHttpModule = isHttps ? https : http;
+  const keepAlive = options.keepAlive === undefined ? false : options.keepAlive;
 
   // TODO(v7): Evaluate if we can set keepAlive to true. This would involve testing for memory leaks in older node
   // versions(>= 8) as they had memory leaks when using it: #2555
   const agent = proxy
     ? (new (require('https-proxy-agent'))(proxy) as http.Agent)
-    : new nativeHttpModule.Agent({ keepAlive: false, maxSockets: 30, timeout: 2000 });
+    : new nativeHttpModule.Agent({ keepAlive, maxSockets: 30, timeout: 2000 });
 
   const requestExecutor = createRequestExecutor(options, options.httpModule ?? nativeHttpModule, agent);
   return createTransport(options, requestExecutor);
diff --git a/packages/node/test/transports/http.test.ts b/packages/node/test/transports/http.test.ts
index e2e4af2352b9..9594940c2014 100644
--- a/packages/node/test/transports/http.test.ts
+++ b/packages/node/test/transports/http.test.ts
@@ -108,6 +108,20 @@ describe('makeNewHttpTransport()', () => {
       await transport.send(EVENT_ENVELOPE);
     });
 
+    it('allows overriding keepAlive', async () => {
+      await setupTestServer({ statusCode: SUCCESS }, req => {
+        expect(req.headers).toEqual(
+          expect.objectContaining({
+            // node http module lower-cases incoming headers
+            connection: 'keep-alive',
+          }),
+        );
+      });
+
+      const transport = makeNodeTransport({ keepAlive: true, ...defaultOptions });
+      await transport.send(EVENT_ENVELOPE);
+    });
+
     it('should correctly send user-provided headers to server', async () => {
       await setupTestServer({ statusCode: SUCCESS }, req => {
         expect(req.headers).toEqual(